Man shoots two Fayetteville officers, brother, commits suicide

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Fayetteville, N.C. — A 19-year-old man shot two Fayetteville police officers and his brother early Monday and engaged in a standoff with police before committing suicide, police said.

Police responded to a home on Argon Avenue around 1:30 a.m. after getting a call from neighbors that the man was acting erratic.

The gunman was later identified as Careem Leggett, who had been involuntarily committed for psychiatric treatment twice since March 2010.

Police said that, when two officers approached Leggett, he began firing at them.

Officer Malachy Quillen was shot in the neck, throat and shoulder. He was taken to Cape Fear Valley Medical Center, where he was listed as serious but stable on Monday afternoon. Quillen just completed field training and had been on the job for about a week at the time of the shooting.